The taxi crawled from the airport into the city of Recife through dense traffic, apparently normal enough as the chatty taxi driver informed them. Morgan tuned him out and watched the world go by.
These moments of movement between locations were a welcome pause, enforced time when they could do nothing. Their missions focused on action, always taking the next step, but it was in these pauses that both she and Jake did a lot of their thinking. This assignment had many puzzling aspects, and the professor’s abduction by a mysterious Order added a new dimension. If the monks went to such lengths to keep it hidden, perhaps the Garden was real after all.
The taxi finally reached the inner city. Sprawling skyscrapers reflected a thriving modern culture, and the architecture of the Old Town had
